Does anyone have the problem, they just dont wanna do ANYTHING, but you DONT feel depressed about it. I stopped school, dont listen to music anymore, stopped Tai Chi, have totally secluded myself from my friends, I cant log onto MSN anymore, but im not having any "down" feeling with it all most of the time, sure I feel down at times, but for the most part it just seems like some mental block, I just feel insane, yet sane to know right from wrong , it is just like some sort of a mental block or something. Something in me says nope dont do that. I used to play bass, was never great, but now im just like bass ? meh. and I get up in the morning and pace up and down the hallway, cause I cant bring myself to "doing" anything... if I try and sit and chill out even if I do feel relaxed it is like every minute feels like an hour, My days seem so frigging long... I wake up at like 5-6am... go to bed around 12-1... When I get up I get really frustrated.. I dont feel "down" but I cant be content with anything... I cant watch t.v, dont feel like being in the kitchen, so I end up going outside every 5 minutes to smoke, I never used to smoke, whacky I started I know, and I HATE IT ! I know when I was younger I was diagnosed with ADD, I sometimes wonder if this is all just a really really bad attention span to the point I cant do anything. Im getting really frustrated with it all. I try to explain to the p-doc how I feel, he says "your depressed" I says... I dont feel depressed. What the hell is wrong with me... can anyone relate to this huge jumbling rant... ahhhh... It is like I cant remember how I used to get through time... There was apoint when I seemed to keep myself busy but now it is like I cant, or I dont want to, and then I get really anxious about it. Ahhhh. The madness. Why cant I just be normal !im a professional... on an amateur level !

I just wanted you to know that the same thing is happening to me currently, and i totally understand. But I also know why...for me its kind of a type of mixed episode. I cycle so quickly from manic to depressed and back to manic again, that i cant decide what i am even feeling about things. So far my solution is to do things for other people and talk to my husband about my frustrations when it gets to be too much. Mostly, my suggestion is to do something even if it sounds terrible, i find that doing something is better than doing nothing - but thats jsut a personal thing.

Anyway, hang in there, know you are not alone, although it may be something very different for you.

sooper sorry about how you are feeling, i wis there was something i could do to help hang in there, i have been currently been prescribed wellbutrin 400mgs daily. Can you tell me positive results i hope that i am makeing the right choice in taking this new med, i am going to slowly ween my way down to a low dose of the Zoloft and see what happens i think that 400mg right away maybe to high to start with maybe i should only take 150mg for a while a see how that goes anyway if you have suggestion is would appreciate it greatly thanks talk later Twiggy2

How much Zoloft and Effexor do you take, i didn;t know that you could combine Z and effexor, i been feeling so sluggish latley having a hard time getting out of bed my whole body feels like a tons of bricks, some of it has to do with work but i feel that there could be something else wrong just not sure what it is yet. Don;t feel like eating much, kinda tired my hands shake pretty back to, these are some of symptoms. can you relate anyway please realy back when you have a moment thanks Twiggy2

yes i have looked intoit a but i should read about in more and mention to my doc. Maybe i;m also going to mention a low dose of effexxor at my next appointment with my pysch and see what happens. Thanks for you reply Twiggy2.

Whether you actually feel deprressed or not, those are all symptoms of depression. My husband has a similar problem and his doc and I finally convinced him to take an anti depressant and he actually admitted to me yesterday that he feels better and feels like participating in life again. Hang in there and give the meds a try!